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no soup for you

no soup for you phrase: a snide phrase used when declining a request, especially when previously assumed that the request will be fulfilled.

Phrase

no soup for you

  1. A snide phrase used when declining a request, especially when previously assumed that the request will be fulfilled.
    • Once you know a plan has the drugs you need, and once you know what these drugs will cost, you might think you'd be done with your due diligence. Ha! No soup for you!2016 October 4, Philip Moeller, Get What's Yours for Medicare: Maximize Your Coverage, Minimize Your Costs (The Get What's Yours Series), Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 127
    • And then remember what I said, if that's the case, then no soup for you! LOL. You get no reward meal if you veer off the carb cycle even 1%, that's the deal!2017 April 4, Michael Morelli, The Sweet Potato Diet: The Super Carb-Cycling Program to Lose Up to 12 Pounds in 2 Weeks, Hachette UK, →ISBN, →OCLC, Reward Meal

Origin of no soup for you

From episode 116, The Soup Nazi of the sitcom Seinfeld.

Questions about no soup for you

What does no soup for you mean?
No soup for you means a snide phrase used when declining a request, especially when previously assumed that the request will be fulfilled.
What part of speech is no soup for you?
No soup for you is a phrase.

Words near no soup for you in the dictionary

  1. no smoke without fire
  2. no smoking
  3. no soap
  4. no sooner said than done
  5. no sooner than
  6. no soup for you
  7. no speaks
  8. no string attached
  9. no strings attached
  10. No Such Agency
  11. no such luck

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